AI Ethics

NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas, who rose from a 15-year-old unpaid intern to the top chair, says he remains unsatisfied and driven by a philosophy that 'if you're not growing, you're dying.' In his first year leading…

Jack Davis released an open-source repository, agent-privacy, that implements four privacy actions—allow, redact, handoff, and block—for CLI-style agent harnesses handling sensitive data. The system treats information fl…

Tech workers are spending nights and weekends learning new AI tools to stay competitive, with 85% of US desk workers learning AI outside work, according to an Ernst & Young survey. Software engineer Maahir Sharma spends …

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced the CREATOR Act, which would give visual artists the legal power to sue individuals and AI platforms that deliberately imitate their style for profit without permiss…

Vice President J. D. Vance is shaping a distinct AI doctrine that balances Silicon Valley's pro-innovation ethos with MAGA's worker-protection and anti-regulation stance, warning that mishandling AI could threaten the Am…

Former U.S. Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras argues that bringing one's authentic self to work hinders teamwork and professionalism, advocating instead for a professional self that prioritizes team value over individu…

Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warned that ordinary internet users can no longer reliably distinguish AI-generated images, video, or audio from real content, as deepfake content has grown by roughly 900% over the pa…

Sam Altman predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030, while rivals like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Elon Musk expect it even sooner. Altman says AI could handle 30-40% of economic tasks soon, but infrastruct…

Brands are increasingly using AI-generated influencers on social media to promote products without disclosing the artificial nature of the content, an investigation by The Guardian has found. The practice raises concerns…

Web standards advocate Daniel Appelquist argues that human user needs must remain the top priority in web development, even as AI technologies advance. He emphasizes that AI systems are not people and should not supersed…

Residents in multiple Japanese cities are opposing new data center projects, citing noise, waste heat and fire risks. In Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, ten residents filed a lawsuit against a private inspection company that is…

Vanta, an agentic trust platform, crossed $300M in ARR by integrating AI into its security and compliance product, a domain where trust is traditionally hard to earn. The company learned to trust AI by carefully wiring i…

The author critiques a specific interpretation of 'democratic AI' that carries authoritarian and homogenizing implications, arguing that true democracy requires pluralism rather than imposing a single set of values. The …

Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warns that the average person cannot distinguish AI-generated deepfakes from real content, as generative AI has made manipulation effortless and visually indistinguishable. Farid, who …

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Microsoft Copilot requiring access to messages, calendars, and credit cards constitute a…

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu criticized 80% of AI discourse as 'brainless,' arguing that the focus should be on corporate power and monopoly rather than capitalism. The MIT economist estimated AI will deliver only 0.55%…

Ia Mg, a seasoned engineer and former teacher at Free University of Tbilisi, argues that everyone has a responsibility to understand technology, even if they never write code, because digital literacy is essential for na…

A growing phenomenon called 'cognitive surrender' is plaguing software engineering teams, where developers approve AI-generated code without understanding it, leading to a viral Reddit post and warnings from Google's Add…

A page titled 'AI Finance Advice Comes with a Warning Label' returns a 404 error, indicating the story has not been written yet. The site notes that unlike its journalists, the page lacks multiple perspectives.

New research reveals that AI models do not invent fake names at random but often converge on the same plausible lies, creating a security and compliance risk. Studies found that code-generating LLMs hallucinate package n…